best VPNs , Kinja commenter Gigith called NordVPN, “Pretty solid for one of the marketed VPNs.” With concerns over security once again looming over the American public, no thanks to reopening conversations around Section 215 of the Patriot Act,...

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I’ve been using this for about three years, and it works fine. It is unobtrusive and simple to use, but it also has more complicated features so you can hide yourself a little better. Sometimes a remote server gets filled up and you have to switch to another one, but this happens rarely. Overall I feel this is money well spent.

I had some problems with NordVPN and Netflix in the past, but not in the last two months or so. When you start your computer, NordVPN connects you to their fastest server — at that moment. If you start up Netflix at a later time, that same server might not be the fastest anymore. To avoid this, you can go into NordVPN and connect to the current fastest server just before you start Netf lix.

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Who here cares about animals? They’re super fluffy, and whatever your choice make great companions. My love for pets made me realize that maybe I should make a list of some of my favorite cruelty-free beauty brands and highlight one product from each, just to support the movement. I’m not vegan or anything, but I do believe that we should be a little bit more conscious of what we apply on our...

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Also, it’s possible I’ve missed something already published... but I’d love to see a list of companies supporting the Black Lives Matters movement. Not that our retail purchases are a substitute for our own direct financial and practical support of the BLM movement, but I’d actually like to direct my spending toward Black owned businesses, and toward companies who are making substantial donations right now. Thank you!

So you’re watching Guy’s Grocery Games, and as your favorite local chef starts listing off his wacky scheme to win over the judges with a tasty dish, you realize the dialogue’s muffled so you missed a few ingredients. Sure, you could turn on subtitles, but they won’t do you much good when you’re in the kitchen cooking and passively...

Sonos makes some of the best speakers around, but they’re certainly not cheap. Quality comes at a price, and with Sonos, that might be more than your budget usually allows. Luckily, many of the company’s top...

I’ve always wanted a cool home theater setup, but two things have held me back. First, I rarely have several hundreds of dollars lying around. Second, for most of my adult life, I have shuffled from one teeny tiny apartment to the next—I’m not trying to pile on the clutter! So I was intrigued by the Sonos Arc—the company’s latest soundbar which finally includes Dolby Atmos support.

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I’m not looking for more microphones in my apartment on top of the ones I already have

This throwaway line is played like a joke... but it would be nice if someone at Gizmodo would for once recognize that there are plenty of us who DEFINITELY do not want always listening microphones that report to Amazon, Google (or hell, in this case both) in our homes. That’s a disqualifying “feature” for some users and it would be great if there were more devices that shipped without those microphones. But since they make big money off of bugging our houses, we know that’s not going to happen any time soon.

Thanks for the review! Your apartment set up looks to be similar to mine but I snuck my wireless subwoofer behind my couch, underneath the desk directly behind it (so I kick it sometimes while I sit at the desk). As an aside, do you know if Giz (or other) is keeping some sort of running Matrix of Atmos compatability on hardware + software (IE: Atmos capable devices x the Apps that have atmos content). I did this exercise when I bought my TV + Atmos soundbar around black friday last year, but now I cannot remember which Apps would let me watch Force Unleashed on a Roku TV, fully atmos Enabled (Amazon Prime, yes. Netflix on a hooked up PS4 or Fire Stick, yes. HBO Go? definitely not)

Hi! Trust, I had a lot of googling to do to find out what is and isn’t Atmos compatible when testing the Arc. Unfortunately, it’s a hodgepodge out there and I don’t recall coming across many *complete* lists . A lot of it was me experimenting with what we had on hand.

If you can believe it, I found as far as streaming apps go that *deep breath and long sigh* Vudu , of all things, was the easiest. There’s a handy symbol in the upper left corner when you buy/rent the 4K UHD version of a movie that tells you whether it’s streaming in Atmos. Disney+ also purportedly streams some movies in Atmos (you can check the Details section for each movie), as does as you mentioned, Amazon Prime and Netflix in certain circumstances.